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Exact witch execution site found.

FromIn 1692, mass hysteria swept through Salem, Massachusetts, spawning one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history.

Townspeople, fearful of the devil, began accusing men and women of witchcraft, putting them on trial. They eventually hanged 19 and pressed one, Giles Corey, to death.

Corey was the only victim of the Salem witch trials not to be hanged to death.

Giles Corey(September 11, 1611 – September 19, 1692) was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693). After being arrested for witchcraft, Corey refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. He was subjected to pressing in an effort to force him to plead — the only example of such a sanction in American history — but instead died after two days of torture.-From Wikipedia-(Photo: Dana Huff/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)